Highway to heaven - Building Microservices in the cloud

Fed up with stop and go in your data center? Why not shift into overdrive and pull into the fast lane? Learn how AutoScout24 are building their Autobahn in the cloud to become the market leader in Europe's vehicle classified business.

Reinventing themselves by making a radical transition from monoliths to microservices, from .NET on Windows to Scala on Linux, from data center to AWS and from built by devs and run by ops to a devops mindset.

While the current stack keeps running, ever more microservices will go live as you listen to stories from the trenches.

I'm a Coding Architect at AutoScout24. I'm deeply involved with "Tatsu", where AutoScout24 transforms its matured IT setup into a nextgen Web-Scale IT platform. I joined AutoScout24 as a developer, later lead a team of Developers, before the current challenges lured me into a more technical role.

After many years of software development, I am still excited about advances in technology and in new ideas and concepts. My current vision is centered around "You build it, you run it" and includes buzzwords like AWS, Microservices and Event Sourcing.

I'm a professionally qualified software engineer with over 20 years of international consulting experience. I've worked throughout the software lifecycle as a developer, software systems architect, team lead, business analyst and enterprise IT architect delivering major software systems. I work for ThoughtWorks Germany and help teams delivering working software.

My primary professional interests are microservices in the cloud, continuous delivery and devops, software architecture, agile enablement and humanitarian software.